Gods, Guns and Israel: Britain, the First World War and the Jews in the Homeland

Title: Gods, Guns and Israel: Britain, the First World War and the Jews in the Homeland
Author: Jill Hamilton
History: 1699597
ISBN: 9780752450223
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 3rd
Number of Pages: 352
Section: History | Middle East | Israel & Palestine
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Publisher Description: The roots of today's Middle East conflict are extremely deep and exceedingly tangled. Unraveling a complicated story, Jill Hamilton describes the background to the present conflict--intertwined in the sad story of mistakes and broken promises is the age-old fascination that Jerusalem holds for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. New insights are given into the decisions taken by the key men in the British and American governments, and the effect on Old Testament beliefs on those decisions. Woven into the narrative is the story of David Ben-Gurion and the other soldiers in the Jewish Legion, following them from their first tottering steps on the moors of Devon, to their quarter century as members of the secret underground army, the Haganah, to May 1948 when Ben-Gurion read the Declaration of Independence of the new state of Israel.